Steampunk Era: Mad Abield

After Baron Anthony of the Gallo family had set the village ablaze, Malin decided to let the Baron explain the next course of action—his orders were to converge with this man, and now that the task was accomplished, it was time to see what the Baron would do next.

"Our most important target today is the Selvo commercial city to the north, but as a flanking force, our main objective is still to join the nearby friendly forces in attacking Dolce Town to the west," said the Baron. Though the Baron was a Southerner, he understood the region better than Malin, the foreigner, not to mention they had the local Mage, Raphael. So Malin let them lead the way, while he sat on the self-propelled chair formed by Fio and Lorrin and began to recover his Spiritual Energy—nearly half of his energy had been depleted in the previous battle, and now was the time to recover as much as possible during the lull in combat.

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Watching Malin, who appeared to be meditating on the chair, Baron Anthony realized for the first time that the geniuses he had once admired were merely mortals in comparison to him.

The World Tree Sapling, a legendary object from another world, was esteemed as the most illustrious artifact in the eyes of the members of the Mage Tower. The reason for its fame was that the skull of a former Tower Master was still embedded in the base of a bench in the grand cathedral of the Church of Justice.

Base of Sinners, where the skulls of anyone who offended the Church of Justice and had some combat ability were embedded after their death. There, one could see the skulls of a sovereign, the head of the Thieves Guild, the speaker of the Shadow Thief’s Guild, the chief of the Assassin’s Guild, some unfortunate pseudo War God, and among them, the Mage Tower Tower Master was not the most famous.

The first lesson the apprentices of the Mage Tower learned was how to avoid foolishly dying at the hands of members of the Church of Justice.

Whilst the Mages were somewhat irritated by the actions of the Church of Justice, after all, it was their own Tower Master from their own generation who brought death upon himself—he had killed a warrior possessing a World Tree Sapling. By that very afternoon when he obtained the sapling, the Chief Paladin under the Lord of Justice came with a very ordinary wooden sword.

Yes, a World Tree wooden longsword, which was more fearsome than the sapling itself. That Chief Paladin Bishop alone, with one sword, slaughtered three Legendary Mages and ultimately tore off the Tower Master’s head from his neck.

When he left, the other eight Legendary Mages present didn’t even dare to intercept him.